Image-capturing and image-distributing system for automatically or manually capturing image of user carrying mobile communication terminal

Abstract

A system and a method in which image-capturing is effected automatically or manually. When a user-carried mobile terminal receives a near field wireless signal from a near field wireless signal transmitting station installed in an image-capturing field area, it is determined that a user is present within the image-capturing field of the externally installed image-capturing device and the user-carried communication terminal transmits automatically or manually an image-capturing request to the externally installed image-capturing device. In response, the externally installed image-capturing device effects image-capturing and then transmits the obtained image to an image server. After transmission of the image-capturing request, the user-carried mobile communication terminal makes a downloading request to the image server and effects downloading via a network and the downloaded data is automatically stored within the user-carried mobile communication terminal.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An image-capturing and image-distributing system comprising:
 a near field wireless signal transmitting station; 
 a user-carried mobile communication terminal; 
 an image-capturing device associated with an image-capturing area; and 
 an image server; 
 wherein the near field wireless signal transmitting station is configured to:
 transmit a near field wireless signal containing encrypted image-capturing condition information via a near field wireless communication in order to identify that a user has entered the image-capturing area; 
 
 wherein the user carried mobile communication terminal is configured to:
 receive and decrypt the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information, 
 determine that the user has entered the image-capturing area based on the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information, and 
 transmit an image-capturing request including a user presence area within the image-capturing area to the image-capturing device based on determining that the user has entered the image-capturing area; 
 
 wherein the image-capturing device is configured to:
 capture an image of the user presence area based on the image-capturing request, and 
 transmit acquired image data associated with the image to the image server; 
 
 wherein the image server is configured to: 
 store the acquired image data in correlation with an image-capturing location and an image-capturing time/date, and 
 transmit the acquired image data to the user-carried mobile communication terminal in response to receiving a download request from the user-carried mobile communication terminal which designates the image-capturing location and the image-capturing time/date. 
 
     
     
       2. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to  claim 1 , wherein the image-capturing device includes the near field wireless signal transmitting station. 
     
     
       3. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to  claim 1 , wherein the image-capturing device includes the image server. 
     
     
       4. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to  claim 1 , wherein the image server is further configured to transmit the acquired image data to a cloud storage in response to receiving a cloud-storage request from the user-carried communication terminal. 
     
     
       5. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to  claim 1 , wherein the near field wireless signal transmitting station is further configured to generate the encrypted image-capturing condition information dynamically. 
     
     
       6. A method comprising:
 transmitting, with a near field wireless signal transmitting station via a near field wireless communication, a near field wireless signal containing encrypted image-capturing condition information in order to identify that a user has entered an image-capturing area; 
 receiving and decrypting, with a user-carried mobile communication terminal, the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information; 
 determining, with the user-carried mobile communication terminal, that the user has entered the image-capturing area based on the near field wireless signal containing the encrypted image-capturing condition information; 
 transmitting, with the user-carried mobile communication terminal, an image-capturing request including a user presence area within the image-capturing area to an image-capturing device associated with the image-capturing area based on determining that the user has entered the image capturing area; 
 capturing, with the image capturing device, an image of the user presence area based on the image-capturing request; 
 transmitting, with the image capturing device, acquired image data associated with the image to an image server; 
 storing, with the image server, the acquired image data in correlation with an image-capturing location and an image-capturing time/date; and 
 transmitting, with the image server, the acquired image data to the user-carried mobile communication terminal in response to receiving a download request from the user-carried mobile communication terminal which designates the image-capturing location and the image-capturing time/date. 
 
     
     
       7. The image-capturing and image-distributing system according to  claim 1 , wherein the user-carried mobile communication device is further configured to determine that the user has entered the image capturing area is based on a comparison between an image-capturing field intensity recorded within the near field wireless signal and a received field intensity of the near field wireless signal received by the user carrier mobile communication terminal. 
     
     
       8. The method according to  claim 6 , wherein determining that the user has entered the image capturing area is based on a comparison between an image-capturing field intensity recorded within the near field wireless signal and a received field intensity of the near field wireless signal received by the user carrier mobile communication terminal. 
     
     
       9. The method according to  claim 6 , wherein the image-capturing device includes the near field wireless signal transmitting station. 
     
     
       10. The method according to  claim 6 , wherein the image-capturing device includes the image server.